[GNC] Definition of document root

[Kalpesh Patel]

I set my global as either '/' (root) on *NIX systems or "file://C:\" or applicable drive letter where they are located on Windows. There are many way to slice-&-dice the path ... this at least forces me to make sure that all computers that I make use of have a consistent location for storing data which eases and allows teleporting backup and recovery policies across systems.
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Brook Milligan <brook at nmsu.edu> 
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2023 10:18 PM
To: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: [GNC] Definition of document root

The root path to the set of documents that can be linked to Gnucash transactions can be set via the “settings” menu.  However, this seems to be a global value; i.e., it applies to all book files.  That is fine if there is a single location in the file system for documents for all books, but it seems much more logical to store books and documents together in their own directories.  

This suggests that the root path for documents should be a book-specific, not a global, attribute.  Ideally, it would be possible to have a global value that can be replaced by a book-specific value, as that would retain the current behavior yet accommodate the more natural (at least to me) organization of all book-specific things together.

Does this make sense?  Am I missing the fact that this can already be done?  Would it be hard to implement this?

Thanks for your thoughts.

Cheers,
Brook